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  • Slashdot: CrowdStrike, Responsible For Global IT Outage, To Cut Jobs In AI Efficiency Push

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/09/0920225/crowdstrike-responsible-for-global-it-outage-to-cut-jobs-in-ai-efficiency-push?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CrowdStrike, Responsible For Global IT Outage, To Cut Jobs In AI Efficiency Push Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: CrowdStrike, a notable cybersecurity firm, is cutting 5% of its workforce due to efficiencies gained through AI. The CEO highlighted AI’s transformative impact on their operations, indicating that…

  • Cloud Blog: From LLMs to image generation: Accelerate inference workloads with AI Hypercomputer

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-hypercomputer-inference-updates-for-google-cloud-tpu-and-gpu/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: From LLMs to image generation: Accelerate inference workloads with AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: From retail to gaming, from code generation to customer care, an increasing number of organizations are running LLM-based applications, with 78% of organizations in development or production today. As the number of generative AI applications…

  • Cloud Blog: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/search-indexes-with-column-granularity-in-bigquery/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New column-granularity indexing in BigQuery offers a leap in query performance Feedly Summary: BigQuery delivers optimized search/lookup query performance by efficiently pruning irrelevant files. However, in some cases, additional column information is required for search indexes to further optimize query performance. To help, we recently announced indexing with…

  • AWS News Blog: Llama 4 models from Meta now available in Amazon Bedrock serverless

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    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/llama-4-models-from-meta-now-available-in-amazon-bedrock-serverless/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Llama 4 models from Meta now available in Amazon Bedrock serverless Feedly Summary: Meta’s newest AI models, Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick 17B, are now available as fully managed, serverless models in Amazon Bedrock, offering natively multimodal capabilities with enhanced reasoning, image understanding, and…

  • Slashdot: AI Compute Costs Drive Shift To Usage-Based Software Pricing

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1650227/ai-compute-costs-drive-shift-to-usage-based-software-pricing?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Compute Costs Drive Shift To Usage-Based Software Pricing Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry is transitioning from traditional “per seat” licensing to usage-based pricing models due to the high compute costs of advanced reasoning AI models. This transformation is crucial for understanding…

  • Cloud Blog: Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/google-global-network-technology-deep-dive/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Diving into the technology behind Google’s AI-era global network Feedly Summary: The unprecedented growth and unique challenges of AI applications are driving fundamental architectural changes to Google’s next-generation global network.  The AI era brings an explosive surge in demand for network capacity, with novel traffic patterns characteristic of…

  • Cloud Blog: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/announcing-general-availability-of-memorystore-for-valkey/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Supercharge your data the open-source way: Memorystore for Valkey is now GA Feedly Summary: Editor’s note: Ping Xie is a Valkey maintainer on the Valkey Technical Steering Committee (TSC). Memorystore, Google Cloud’s fully managed in-memory service for Valkey, Redis and Memcached, plays an increasingly important role in our…

  • Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…